[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

[Nix]

On 29 May 2011, general spake thusly:

> On 29/05/11 18:35, Nix wrote:
>> On 29 May 2011, general outgrape:
>>> Not wanting to tempt fate but I use rsync on different machines every
>>> single day and have managed to do so for some time without confusing
>>> source and destination... it's source first, destination second. The
>>> convention couldn't be better established,
>> strcpy(), memcpy() et al do it the other way around :/
>
> Well nobody ever said C was intuitive, well nobody who was correct
> anyway. Sensible modern languages tend to do it the other way ;)

Yeah, but a lot of Unix people are C people as well. This leads to the
bizarre occurrence that the *more* experienced someone is, the more
likely he is to mess up the argument order of one of these commands.
(My personal bete noire is ln(1). I always get it backwards except when
I don't.)

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